TD to name penalty point waive beneficiaries

Several high-profile individuals face the prospect of being identified as motorists who have had penalty points offences controversially wiped from their driver’s licence by gardaí.

Independent TD Clare Daly has indicated she will try and use parliamentary privilege later this week to name people, including celebrities as well as public officials and members of the judiciary, who have benefited from the practice.

The former Socialist Party TD has vowed to publicise the issue as it emerged that thousands of motorists may have benefited from such discretionary use of powers by senior gardaí over recent years.